I’ll do the rotting for you. At least I’m going to water the plants and water the browning lawn. Take that big brother!!
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I am rotting as well. Some might say that I am already rotten.
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We already knew. So there’s that.
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My mom said I was rotten to the core, and the core was rotten too. 
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“Hydration breaks” (solely to sell ads) in a game that is built on creating sustained momentum over time is such BS.
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You’re supposed to be running errands.
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She let me stay home…back to rotting. 
This game is great.
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Well, that was a disappointing ending.
Felt like the Ivory Coast keeper doing that ridiculous acting job writhing around on the ground really fired up the Germans.
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The keeper for Curacao has had some brilliant saves. I wish the team could get the ball down to the other end of the pitch more.
With that tie, they are still alive in the tournament!
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Ecuador and Curacao showed that a scoreless draw can be quite exhilarating.
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Bummed that’s the game I had to miss today. As a former keeper myself, I love a goalkeeper showcase!
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As a former youth soccer coach for a couple of decades, knowing that you are a former keeper only increases my respect for you (and reinforces all my previous positive opinions of you from your posts). Being a keeper is a lonely act of devotion, responsibility, determination, selflessness, and leadership - as the teams and players age.
More than once, as a youth soccer coach, I stopped a game, despite the objections of the refs, to take a 20 second time out, following a debilitating goal, gather my team, and ask them all to think about how many of the players let that lighting fast opposing forward or mid-fielder dribble by them only to drop their shoulders showing their sense of defeat, and blame the keeper for the inevitable one-on-one goal.
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Former hockey goalie here. Trying to protect a soccer goal is like trying to cover Rhode Island…
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WOW…his performance was even better than I thought
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Interestingly, soccer is the reason I’m the only person in my entire extended family to NOT attend Utah.
I was a decent high school player, but nowhere near good enough to get a look from any D1 schools (recruiting in the days before streaming highlights and e-mail was a very different game). I knew I wanted to try and play at the next level and ended up with a few D2, D3, and NAIA offers. Westminster wanted me to come play but didn’t offer any athletic scholarships and my grades weren’t good enough for an academic one. So instead, I decided to join a bunch of my high school and club teammates and try to walk on at D2 University of Southern Colorado (now CSU Pueblo).
They were simply terrible at the time. In fact, the previous year, they had to run an ad in the local paper for open tryouts just to get enough players to field a team. A whole bunch of us ended up making the team and I somehow ended up as the starting keeper 4 games into my freshman year. After the season, my parents figured I would have worked soccer out of my system at that point and begged me to come back and go to Utah. Instead, Southern Colorado ended up offering me a soccer scholarship so I stuck around and played all four years.
We were never any good (our best record in four years was one game below .500), but playing at the next level was a remarkable experience that I wouldn’t trade for the world. And it kept me in school to earn a degree, so it was definitely worth it in the end. I had lofty aspirations that I could play professionally once I was done with college, but that was dashed immediately at the Colorado Rapids open tryout when I made a fool of myself trying to compete against legit D1 and pro players (I got politely asked to leave at lunch of the first day 
).
It’s an entirely different game at that level. Goalkeepers for any national team are truly remarkable at their craft.
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It’s great you had the wherewithal to go for the next level.
When you’re a goalie: your either the hero or the goat.
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Oh geez. Red card on Belgium. Could be a game changer in the match against Iran.
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I swear the FIFA president is at every game. Does the guy have a DeLorean?
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He has several handy clones.
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